Tank taunt add-on

Post by iPlumb212

Hi all,I recently leveled a prot paly and did my first raid as the ot. All throughout the encounter I kept getting whispers from an add-on when to taunt the boss off the other tank (ex. X has 4 stacks of frost bite TAUNT NOW!) as well as whispering to the other tank when to taunt back. I asked the other tank what add-on he was using but he said it wasn't him. Can any one help out. I've checked a few taunt watch add-ons but most just message when some one has already taunted not when to taunt.

Post by SirPunky

Post by djkb420

The add-on your looking for is called Taunt Master. I use it with my pally as well, gets kind of annoying after awhile though

Post by Shiranu

Yeah, whisper function of Taunt Master can get annoying, but fortunately it can be turned off. I use the mod for its primary function which is to give you small unit frame for your party or raid that highlights each members name box as their threat escalates (yellow=increasing, orange=getting close, red=they have agro)When their box is red, you can click click their box to automatically taunt their target back to you. Its not fool proof, but it is rather handy in most situations.

Also, Reliant Tanking Monitor is a handy mod that gives you movable and sizable unit frames for each tank and shows a timer bar and stacks for each tanks debuffs. Very handy for Frostbite, Rune of Blood, etc. particularly when you need to wait for your debuff to slide off before taunting the boss back to you.

With that last one I recommend to turn the debuff warnings off so as not to clutter your screen and turn off the sound alerts.

Post by pelf

TauntMaster also does some very nice obfuscating of the odd particulars of the Righteous Defense spell, I hear.

Post by Varaconn

TauntMaster also does some very nice obfuscating of the odd particulars of the Righteous Defense spell, I hear.

Well, Righteous Defense can (basically) work like a normal taunt these days. Way back, if you wanted it to function like a normal taunt, you had to macro it to have a (or however that works.)

Now, Blizzard built that functionality into the ability. If your current target is targeting a Friendly, it'll taunt as normal. It'll still do the whole multi-target taunt as well, if that person happens to have pulled multiple mobs.

Post by pelf

Yeah, what TauntMaster does is something outside of that, IIRC. Someone was in here asking for a macro that replicated what TauntMaster did a while back. It might not have had anything to do with the functionality; more the reporting capabilities. Much of the mechanics of that spell are internal to its code, so if we want to write notices reporting what it's doing, we have to sort of do what it's doing on our side as well.

Post by Varaconn

Ahh, I see what you're saying.

I had assumed you were referring to the fact that Righteous Defense is a "friendly" taunt, and were saying that the addon made it a normal taunt.

My mistake.

Post by pelf

Oh, no problem. I would assume I was saying that too.

I think my RD macros actually still have the old "fix" code in them from when it didn't work properly :|.

Post by rnbw

Uhm in my eyes those whisper "taunt" addons are really, really annoying. It's up to the tank to have the correct addons installed and use them correctly. So the tank should have Deadly Boss Mods which will tell you just fine when to taunt and when other things happen.

It's just redundant and annoying if I also get whispers telling me when to taunt. And if you have a tank in the group who doesn't have DBM, that's reason enough to kick him and put him on your ignore list (if he doesn't have a good reason). Also, it could lead to laziness. They might think "ooh this other guy has this great addon which whispers me anything I need to know, so I just won't bother with addons myself". And then one day that other guy is absent and you f**k everything up. ^^

But to be really honest, I hate most /say, /yell, /whisper macro's. What do I want to know that you used Misdirect or Tricks of the Trade on me? Why do you have to have a cooldown "I'm going to pull in 10 seconds", then "9 seconds", and 8 more messages before you pull?

The only thing that might be useful is a "/raid Using taunt, heal me!" macro because that lets the healers know you're going to get damage. But on the other hand if they have DBM as well they should see it coming too. :P

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